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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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